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Let's talk about the Night Stalker
February 8, 2023
Richard Ramirez would have been 63 this month. He died nearly a decade ago (June 7, 2013, if you’re keeping track) in a hospital in tony Marin County,...
Armie Hammer · The Order · Authentic Wave
February 7, 2023
Plus: The bizarre true crime link to "Emancipation"
Martha Mitchell · Marilyn Manson · College Hoops
$ · February 6, 2023
Plus AI, Adnan, and sponcon
Oakland · Anthony Palladino · Murf the Surf
February 3, 2023
Plus: Our true-crime weekend
Eric Adams · Mormons · A Groundhog Day BET-CRP
February 2, 2023
Plus the commercialization of documentaries
Black History Month: Recs and reqs
February 1, 2023
Black History Month gets underway today, and you know what that means. Thought-provoking discussion and reading/viewing, yes…but also cringey leveraging of...
Jerks · Backstories · Sports
January 31, 2023
It's the January budget doc sweep post
48 Hours · Rikers · The '70s
$ · January 30, 2023
Plus a missing "trustafarian" and The Big Lie
January 2023 Bonus Review: You're Wrong About Henry Lee Lucas
$ · January 28, 2023
Sarah Marshall and Rachel Monroe on how a garden-variety creep became an archetype
Justin Roiland · Elizabeth Holmes · Irish Dumping
January 27, 2023
Plus weekend (fiction?) watching
George Santos is the Zodiac*
January 26, 2023
Plus Kennedy, Koresh, and the Oscars
The Doodler · Anna Delvey · Rust Reactions
January 25, 2023
Plus: "Cold Justice" warms back up
When genres collide: What reality-show suspects deserve the true-crime treatment?
January 24, 2023
“Reality show or true crime series?” asked NPR this week. The subject in question was the he Real Housewives franchise, which has manufactured a multitude of...
Web Of Death · Sam Sheppard Jr. · The Murdaughs
$ · January 23, 2023
Plus: you can't spell "Elizabeth Holmes" without "lam" (...allegedly)
Brett Kavanaugh · Meryl Streep · Mario Batali
January 20, 2023
Is that our most random subject line yet? y/n?
Slender Man · Black Dahlia · Accidental Presidents
January 19, 2023
Two hits and a whiff
True crime matchmaking: marry a great fiction writer with a great true crime case
January 18, 2023
One of my favorite lines in Glass Onion involves the intersection of fiction and crime. A Musk-like billionaire (Ed Norton) tells detective Benoit Blanc...
New Podcasts · Evan Peters · Kit Kats
January 17, 2023
Four new shows to look forward to in 2023
Jailhouse Lawyers · Dead Presidents · Con(gres)s(men)
January 13, 2023
Plus Episcopaliananigans and college-town dispatches
Sarah Lawrence · Houston · Second Seasons
January 12, 2023
Plus: should "conventionally attractive men" play killers?
What unbelievably dumb crimes should become prestige properties?
January 11, 2023
Huge thanks to Calcs at Cup Of Coffee for tipping me to a real Darwin Award of a crime story out of Milwaukee. The complaint says the man attended a Sept. 8...
Amber Alerts · Idaho Misinfo · WWE
January 10, 2023
Plus: A true crime podcaster who is ducking the spotlight
Norman Mailer · The Boston Strangler
$ · January 9, 2023
And soccer and sedition
Andrew Tate · Rick Singer · Capitol cover-up
January 6, 2023
Plus: Is the new Madoff docuseries timely or past the sell-by date?
Revenge Of Sh*tty Media Man · R. Kelly · Jamie Spears
January 5, 2023
Plus Princess Doe, a missing O'Jay, and more
Kaleidoscope · Idaho · Floribama
January 4, 2023
Plus: The results of our cold case poll
Let's hear those true-crime resolutions
January 3, 2023
I got closer to zeroing out my Goodreads challenge in 2022 than I ever had. Not “close,” exactly, but close-r. It’s my year this year, though! I’m-a do it!...
December 2022 Bonus Review, Pt. 2: Kilgallen
$ · January 2, 2023
The writers vs. the rest of it
December 2022 Bonus Review, Pt. 1: Murder One
$ · December 30, 2022
The writing vs. the rest of it
AirTags · Glee · 911
December 30, 2022
Part two of our end-of-year budget doc cleanout
JonBenét · Hackers · Playboy
December 29, 2022
Part one of our two-part end-of-year budget doc cleanup
D.B. Cooper, unbound · Waxworks · Feeling gross
December 28, 2022
Sarah's favorite criminal scales the Best Evidence paywall
Did you get a crime-related gift this year?
December 26, 2022
If you’re like me, you spent the morning picking up errant shreds of wrapping paper, looking contentedly at a fridge of leftovers, and mulling your gift...
Best Of 2022: True-crime hopes and dreams
December 23, 2022
What we -- and you -- want from the genre in '23
Best Of 2022: Most anticipated true crime in 2023
December 22, 2022
Plus Mary Roach, David Faux-wie, and checking Santos's list
"Best" Of 2022: The year's biggest disappointments
December 21, 2022
Bad Bad Vegan, no biscuit! For the last week or so, we’ve been talking with a prized panel of colleagues about the best (and the rest) true crime of 2022....
Best Of 2022: True crime's hidden gems
December 20, 2022
Plus cop-drama drama, and engraging (?) longreads
Best Of 2022: "Vintage" true-crime finds
December 19, 2022
Plus JFK docs and wine deals
Best Of 2022: Best dramatic adaptations
December 16, 2022
Plus: this meeting of the Arthur Bell Appreciation Society will now come to order
Best Of 2022: Top true-crime documentaries and docuserieseses
December 15, 2022
Plus podcast justice, and stupid DHS tricks
Best Of 2022: Most engrossing true-crime longread
December 14, 2022
Plus Golden Globes nominations, and "Fyre II: Even Fyrier"?
Best Of 2022: Favorite true-crime podcasts
December 13, 2022
Cons, elections, Holmes -- and one clear favorite
Best Of 2022: Favorite true-crime book
December 12, 2022
From Alice to Zodiac, some of the year's top reads
Laundering Art · Climbing Denali · Suing Cos
December 9, 2022
And: all is not OK at the Exactly Right corral...again
The Grey's Anatomy Grifter · Murph The Surf
December 8, 2022
Plus filial ID fraud, a crime reporter's lost ancestor, and more
True-crime gaming
December 7, 2022
I’ve come across a lot of hilarrible ‘70s true-crime board games in my shop-acquisition travels of late. The hilar- part comes primarily from the fonts, and...
Mark Geragos · Piers Morgan · Joe Berlinger
December 6, 2022
Plus: True-crime podcast stats that might leave you dispirited
Kilgallen · NXIVM · SDB vs. DVR
$ · December 5, 2022
Plus Delvey and JLaw, Somerton Man, and wanting better for Elizabeth Vargas
Various Texas Killing Things · RIP, HLN · The Teacher's Pet
December 2, 2022
Plus: Danny Masterson's reboot
Snapchat · Streamers · The Boy In The Box
December 1, 2022
Plus more Capote, interrogating fingerprints, and more
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